Hagley Prize

The Hagley Museum and Library and the Business History Conference jointly offer an annual prize for the best book in business history, broadly defined. The prize committee encourages the submission of books from all methodological perspectives. It is particularly interested in innovative studies that have the potential to expand the boundaries of the discipline. Scholars, publishers, and other interested parties may submit nominations. Eligible books can have either an American or an international focus. They must be written in English and be published during the two years prior to the award.

Four copies of a book must accompany a nomination and be submitted to the prize coordinator: Carol Ressler Lockman, Hagley Museum and Library, P.O. Box 3630, 298 Buck Road East, Wilmington, DE 19807-0630. The deadline for nominations is November 30.

Hagley Prize Recipients:

2017: Mark R. Wilson

Destructive Creation: American Business and the Winning of World War II, University of Pennsylvania Press

2016: Co-Winners: Vicki Howard and Jonathan Coopersmith

From Main Street to Mall: The Rise and Fall of the American Department Store, University of Pennsylvania Press

Faxed: The Rise and Fall of the Fax Machine, Johns Hopkins University Press

2015: Walter A. Friedman

Fortune Tellers: The Story of America’s First Economic Forecasters, Princeton University Press

2014: Co-Winners: Bernhard Rieger and Dimitry Anastakis

The People’s Car: A Global History of the Volkswagen Beetle, Harvard University Press

Autonomous State: The Struggle for a Canadian Car Industry from OPEC to Free Trade, University of Toronto Press

2013: Michael B. Miller

Europe and the Maritime world: A Twentieth-Century History, Cambridge University Press

2012: Sharon Ann Murphy

Investing in Life: Insurance in Antebellum America, The Johns Hopkins University Press

2011 : Susan Ingalls Lewis

Unexceptional Women: Female Proprietors in Mid-Nineteenth Century Albany, New York, 1830-1885, Ohio State University Press

2010 : David Suisman

Selling Sounds: The Commercial Revolution in American Music, Harvard University Press